Unwinding Your Heart

Love.

What a complicated yet simple word. A word that dupes the very best of us.
A word that has confounded Alice Carasoul for all twenty years of her life.

For Alice has never fallen in love.

She has been loved, has been lusted after. But has she ever experienced such a painful thing before? No. You see, for Alice, she sees love as a disease. An ugly vengeful disease that leaves nothing but pain and sorrow in its wake, for it weakens the strong and corrupts the weak. Alice has seen many "happy couples" become caught in its horrid affliction, leaving the two of them wrecked on the inside out. It was from that moment on that Alice decided. Never would she give in like those silly people around her. She was different. She was aware of its power, so she would never fall pray to its evil hold.

She would never fall in love.

But little does she know that love is exactly what she is about to get when she meets Mr. Jasper Cartwright, whether she wants to or not.

Jasper Cartwright was a dreamboat to everyone who had met him. There wasn't a girl he couldn't have, and he knew it. The world was his playground, and he was king of the castle. Which is why when he meets Alice Carasoul, the girl who wants absolutely nothing to do with him or the "love" he offers, that he is stumped. Determined to get Alice to fall for him he does everything in his power, even if that means loosing a bit of himself along the way.

This is the story of how Alice surfs through the turbulent tides of romance with Mr. Jasper Cartwright.